What panfisher said...... and stated much nicer than what I had in mind.

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Wars have been fought in all weather extremes with wood stocked, blued barrel rifles.

Some rifles did not even have bluing, and left factories in the white- think Mosin, 1861 Springfield ..... even the Pennsylvania Rifles of the 1700's were "browned", not blued..... and almost none of them had synthetic stocks until the latter 1/2 of the 20th century.

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